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jade 9896d309cb Revert "libexpr: Replace regex engine with boost::regex"
This reverts commit 447212fa65.

Reason for revert: Regression in eval behaviour bug-compatibility.

Expected behaviour (Nix 2.18.5, macOS and Linux [libstdc++/libc++]):

```
nix-repl> builtins.match "\\.*(.*)" ".keep"
[ "keep" ]

nix-repl> builtins.match "(\\.*)(.*)" ".keep"
[ "." "keep" ]
```

Actual behaviour (boost::regex):

```
nix-repl> builtins.match "\\.*(.*)" ".keep"
[ ".keep" ]

nix-repl> builtins.match "(\\.*)(.*)" ".keep"
[
  "."
  "keep"
]
```

Bug: #483
Change-Id: Id462eb8586dcd54856cf095f09b3e3a216955b60
2024-08-22 18:35:11 +00:00
sugar🍬🍭🏳️‍⚧️ 447212fa65 libexpr: Replace regex engine with boost::regex
This avoids C++'s standard library regexes, which aren't the same
across platforms, and have many other issues, like using stack
so much that they stack overflow when processing a lot of data.

To avoid backwards and forward compatibility issues, regexes are
processed using a function converting libstdc++ regexes into Boost
regexes, escaping characters that Boost needs to have escaped, and
rejecting features that Boost has and libstdc++ doesn't.

Related context:

- Original failed attempt to use `boost::regex` in CppNix, failed due to
  boost icu dependency being large (disabling ICU is no longer necessary
  because linking ICU requires using a different header file,
  `boost/regex/icu.hpp`): https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3826

- An attempt to use PCRE, rejected due to providing less backwards
  compatibility with `std::regex` than `boost::regex`:
  https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7336

- Second attempt to use `boost::regex`, failed due to `}` regex failing
  to compile (dealt with by writing a wrapper that parses a regular
  expression and escapes `}` characters):
  https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7762

Closes #34. Closes #476.

Change-Id: Ieb0eb9e270a93e4c7eed412ba4f9f96cb00a5fa4
2024-08-22 03:17:55 +02:00
jade 886a418d23 builtins.nixVersion: return fixed fake version
This builtin is only going to cause us problems because we are not Nix,
so let's just falsify being in the 2.18 series, since that is the
closest target that has any meaning.

In future we might want to have a better feature detection mechanism,
for when we actually add stuff to some builtin's attr set argument. But
builtins.nixVersion is just going to be hopelessly broken and it should
be stubbed out.

Fixes #144

Change-Id: Id7390b32a29c6147f2977737d81846320de5d67e
2024-03-17 00:32:19 -07:00
eldritch horrors 7614aa9797 Merge pull request #4093 from matthewbauer/eval-system
Add eval-system option

(cherry picked from commit 071dbbee33af9f27338c3e53e4ea067dbfa14010)
Change-Id: Ia81358c8cfb60241da07a4d0e84b9ee62a18a53f
2024-03-04 07:21:01 +01:00
John Ericson f7f37035c8 Move tests to separate directories, and document
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:

- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
  built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
  of Nix proper.

- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:

  - It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
    it needs the libraries.

  - It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
    DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
    with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!

This reorg solves these problems.

There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>

(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686a6a6d9eac7f3f66393ec89ef1d3b57)
(cherry picked from commit a61e42adb528b3d40ce43e07c79368d779a8b624)
2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
Renamed from src/libexpr/tests/primops.cc (Browse further)